Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 1

And yet this evil soul Was reckless through it all And jolly, for he had With every devilish vice One virtue, as I said, One saving gift, and that Was, that of all the beasts Who in the forest dwelt, Or devils in Hʿlamkîk (That is the Indian hell), He had the hardest heart, Toughest, as all allowed, And most unconquerable.

Who acts: evil soul, soul, I, One, beasts, That · What happens: be, have, say, save, dwell, allow · To what, where: soul, gift, devils, forest, Indian hell, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil soul, soul, I, One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 soul	advmod
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 soul	det
4	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soul	amod
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 it	nsubj
6	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
7	reckless	reckless	ADV	_	9 it	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 it	det
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 jolly	cc
12	jolly	jolly	ADV	_	10 all	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 had	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	With	with	ADP	_	19 devilish	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 devilish	det
19	devilish	devilish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
20	vice	vice	ADP	_	22 virtue	case
21	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 virtue	nummod
22	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saving	punct
28	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 saving	nsubj
29	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 said	advcl
30	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saving	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 had	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 that	nsubj
34	Was	Be	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 that	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 that	punct
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 had	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 beasts	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 beasts	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 beasts	det
40	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 that	nmod
41	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 dwelt	nsubj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 forest	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 forest	det
44	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dwelt	obl
45	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 beasts	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 devils	punct
47	Or	or	CCONJ	_	48 devils	cc
48	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dwelt	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 Hʿlamkîk	case
50	Hʿlamkîk	Hʿlamkîk	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 devils	nmod
51	(	(	PUNCT	_	56 hell	punct
52	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 hell	nsubj
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 hell	cop
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 hell	det
55	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hell	amod
56	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 devils	appos
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	56 hell	punct
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 that	punct
59	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 had	nsubj
60	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 heart	det
62	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	63 heart	amod
63	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 had	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Toughest	punct
65	Toughest	Toughest	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 heart	appos
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 allowed	punct
67	as	as	SCONJ	_	69 allowed	mark
68	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	69 allowed	nsubj:pass
69	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 had	parataxis
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 unconquerable	punct
71	And	and	CCONJ	_	73 unconquerable	cc
72	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	73 unconquerable	amod
73	unconquerable	unconquerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 allowed	conj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this evil soul		soul	reckless property	tree rules
2	have	past	soul			with every devilish; vice One virtue; he nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	save	gerund	One	gift			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
5	dwell	past	all beasts	devils	the forest	in Hʿlamkîk	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme devil=Location
6	is a	present	That	the Indian hell			tree rules
7	have	past	Hʿlamkîk	that that Was of all beasts		the hardest heart obj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
8	allow	participle · passive		all			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 1